Ares I - DM-1 Test of 5 Segment Motor - September 10th, 2009 - HD

[gaasart]

Aswarp - It's NASA. I think their scientists did what they thought possible, and I also have a feeling they would know exactly what that is better than you. No offence.

[Aswarp]

gaastart, you will never learn how to do stuff if you never question how it's done and why. NASA is just no religion to me, and if someone told me to skydive without a parachute, I would question it even if he was wearing with a NASA badge on his arm.

Of course, no offence meant by any comment, just chatting calmly with people about a cool video.

[Aswarp]

I think they could do this tests a little bit better, I mean: capturing carbon emissions (black smoke at the end of the burn), and placing objects in front of the exhaust in order to perform scientific/industrial research about heavy fire exposure. Those to name a few

[laserfloyd]

They'll be happy if this thing even gets built and is able to fly. Capturing emissions and measure heat exposure are the least of their worries. They want to know how this motor performs and that's the bottom line. They don't get much money as it is. (less then 1% of the entire federal budget)

[Aswarp]

And they will get even less if they are taxed by the carbon emissions comission. Apart from the fact that by chasing only industrial results they have wasted a valuable opportunity to do experimental science of the best kind. How much would an unflammables factory lab pay for such a field test of their products?

[Kloran27]

You want to put all kinds of stuff like that in the path of 22,000,000 horsepower? LOL

This is why you don't work @ NASA.

[Aswarp]

Not actually all kind stuff. Somebody maybe ;)

Now, seriously, from an economic perspective they could get much more out of this tests. Like to ensure that the latter state-of-the-art ignifugous tank armour plates, or shuttle tiles, are really that resistent.

That last comment about work sounds to me more like a group integrity keeper thug's to me. I won't start a flame (hey! flame! heh...)

Anyway, who wants to work at NASA when we can work at CERN? :)

[Nicolasherdwick]

"They could get much more out of this test"? This test was equiped with 630 sensors. Just how much more would you want?

As for your examples: CO² measurements at the end would be not so relevant, and biased "a bit" by the CO² extuinguishing system, and who says they didn't measure them anyway? And testing the fire resistance of things is done far more efficiently and controlled in dedicated test setups rather than behind a burning sand storm of Utah dust shot away by 3.5 million lbs thrust.

[Aswarp]

A huge black cloud of smoke tells me that they did not capture any carbon emission... at least.

the point is not to measure it, but to keep the Earth's ozone layer in good shape and our lungs clean and happy.

[Nicolasherdwick]

Capturing carbon emissions is a noble cause, but in this case simply not feasible at the moment.The SRB is an open loop air burning cycle in which you can't tinker a lot with the combustion process. This means you'd have to air capture the CO², a process which is in its infancy and costs a lot of energy that also needs to be (cleanly) produced somehow. We can't make this carbon capturing work on mundane cars at the moment, and this is an ultra powerful SRB with massive combustion rate and temps

[Aswarp]

Now, that is what I call an informed answer, Nicolasherdwick. If only a bit too acronomy-ous. Thanks a lot

[ussjealousy]

WOW! that was wild!

too bad the audio is out of sync

[littlepyro]

That would have to come from YouTube, as the version I have on my computer is right on sync.

[elmatt2288]

fantastic. thanks for getting the video up so quickly

[littlepyro]

If I had faster internet, I'd get it up quicker. My goal is to have it up first. ;)

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